Firefox 3 vulnerability discovered

With only two days from its public release, TippingPoint’s Zero Day Initiative reported a critical vulnerability affecting Firefox 3.0 as well as 2.0 versions yesterday.

It’s unreleased and Mozilla is working on a fix already. Whatever the exploit is, it does require the user to visit a malicious site or click a link to executed. It came in 5 hours after the FF3 release, but since it affects previous versions, we wonder if the researcher was just sitting on it to be first. The Zero Day Initiative pays researchers for the exploits they submit.

Source: Hack a day

 

Firefox 3 Download Day certificate

If you have already downloaded the new Firerox 3, now you can get your Download Day participation certificate.

Even Bill Gates got it:

 

Scalability Best Practices

Here is a very interesting article about how to deal with scalability problems, in this case they explained eBay ’s policies about it.

Via InforQ

 

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